The challenge to reform Oromo Liberation Front (1-2)

By Weennii Gammoojjii

The Oromo people have been engaged in a relentless struggle to liberate itself from the bond of colonialism since its subjugation by Abyssinian colonizers at the turn of the 19th century. At its infancy the struggle was waged by Oromo peasantry in remote locations in different parts of Oromia. Notably the gallant Bale Oromo Resistance against the Abyssinian brutal feudal rules, in the 1950s, was among such isolated but heroic resistance movements which left its mark on the history of the Oromo people’s struggle for freedom...read more